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Merlyn was jumping from one roof of a car to a roof of a bus with a girl hugging him from behind tightly.

"Evergreen, I've got driven off-course, I need a new route, hurry!"

"Working on it, which way are you headed now?" Rachel asked.

"Northwest!" Merlyn yelled.

"OK, swing west around the clock tower!"

Merlyn notched a grapnel arrow and fired on the roof as he swung around the clock tower as a chopper chased him.

"I want my mommy!" The girl hugging the vigilante screamed.

"Soon, honey!" Merlyn slid down as a sniper fired from the helicopter but missed as the police chopper stopped the hostile helicopter, while the vigilante with the girl fell on a dumpster but Merlyn fired a grapnel arrow and escaped as the police neared them, taking care of the girl.


Rachel's penthouse

"How is she?" Tommy asked as he put his hood down.

"Ambassador's daughter is safe and Quentin says 'thank you'." Rachel smiled as she hung up the phone.

"This is getting rough without Diggle and Team Arrow." Tommy groaned. "Hope they get back from Gotham soon."

"You know, I have just the perfect medicine for it. After a hardly-worked night, you deserve a well-earned reward…" Rachel teased as she was slowly opening her bathrobe and revealing her features, while Tommy smirked as he was taking off his outfit as they laid on the couch and Rachel giggled as they were making out.

But their moment didn't last very long as Rachel stopped Tommy and grabbed a TV remote, turning up the volume. "Jesus Christ…" Rachel and Tommy looked in horror at the news report about a wrecked train on a railroad as Tommy scowled, clearly, his night was far from over. "I guess that means rain check, huh?"

Tommy grabbed his hood and weapons as he jumped out from the balcony.


Later, Star City

Merlyn was observing the wreckage, when the doors of a wagon burst out, while mobsters surrounded it.

From the wagon showed out a woman with long red hair, a giant axe and red and black armor, similar to the one Wonder Woman wears as the mobsters tried to shoot her down but she managed to slice through them with one powerful swing of her axe as Merlyn widened his eyes.

Merlyn jumped down from his cover, aiming his bow at the woman. "Stand down!"

"Who are you? An assassin?" The woman demanded.

"I'm a guardian of this city. I assume you're an Amazon?" Merlyn asked as he looked closely at the woman's armor.

"I am Artemis and if you don't put the bow down, I'll be the last thing you'll ever see. I neither know or care who you are but it's clear that we both want the contents of this train."

"I just came here to find out what's all the fuss about." Merlyn quipped. "What's in the train?"

"By the three beards, you really have no idea what amount of power it possessed, do you?" Artemis groaned. "I've been looking for this weapon since I was sixteen and I'm not going to let you stop me from saving the world."

Merlyn lowered his bow. "Look, princess, let's calm down and talk this through like civilized…"

Next thing Merlyn knew, he was sliding down the ground as Artemis threw a powerful punch to his chest. "Do not call me "princess"." She snarled.

"Got… it." Merlyn groaned as Artemis got him on his feet. "Before you decide to kill me… just to satisfy my curiosity, what's on that train?"

"The Bow of Ra." Artemis said, glaring at Merlyn. "An ancient artifact forged in the dark furnace of a black soul. It is the end of all that is or ever will be."

"Kinda overselling it, aren't you?" Merlyn quipped before he noticed mobsters surrounding them, firing guns as Merlyn kicked Artemis in her chest, not that it fazed her and took cover behind a piece of debris as Artemis followed him.

"You're a lot more noble than I had thought." Artemis smirked.

"Flattered." Merlyn chuckled. "What's going on?"

"In battle, the terms of engagement are all that matter." Artemis said coldly. "You're obviously not law enforcement, or you wouldn't have beaten all the criminals so savagely from what I had heard. And you're not a member of the Justice League or the team of the Emerald Archer either, because frankly, you seem like a loner type."

"Right on the marble." Merlyn smirked as a bullet nearly grazed him. "Look, take those clowns now, chit-chat later."

"Fine by me." Artemis said as she pulled out her daggers and sliced through the mobsters, while Merlyn shot them down before a chopper took off with a container hooked to it. He turned to talk to the Amazon but she vanished.


Later, Rachel's penthouse

"Jesus, who did you fight this time?" Rachel asked as she bandaged Tommy. "Bane?"

"An Amazon." Tommy said simply as Rachel paled.

"Amazon, as in Amazon like the Wonder Woman?" Tommy nodded. "What the hell is an Amazon doing in Star City?"

"Good question." Tommy nodded before screaming out in pain.

"Sorry!" Rachel wailed as she finished bandaging him but meanwhile Tommy managed to pass out on the bed in pain a minute later. "So, that means no sex tonight." She sighed.


Elsewhere

"Do I want to know how did you acquire the DNA sample, Mr. Wolfman?" A scientist asked as he looked into a tube filled with liquid, in which was a naked man floating.

"I'm a man of many skills." Kane said. "And not even the Justice League could acquire half this science crap. And the Ninth Circle's biggest investment was not in the science project but in people."

"Thanks to Lex Luthor's obsession with aliens, we have what we need." One of the circle members smirked.

"Luthor may have gone legit but we still have… our methods of persuasion." Another council member nodded.

"So, he does not know we're building Superman 2.0?" Kane drawled.

"He did intend to create one of his own." The councilman nodded. "According to my contacts, it went poorly, however. And I got confirmation of the clone's existence, when Luthor ordered to have it destroyed, which is, as far as Mr. Luthor believes, exactly what happened."

"Sir, it's Miranda Tate." One of the guards said as he handed the councilman his phone.

"Have you acquired the subject?"

"Yes." The councilman said. "We're preparing to reprogram it for our purposes."

"Excellent. He will be a valuable asset to the circle."


The following morning, Rachel's penthouse

Tommy woke up to see Rachel sleeping at the table in a nightie, with a column of books next to her and a laptop turned on and on the screen was a website about Egyptian gods.

Tommy nudged Rachel in her shoulder as she yelped. "Hey, easy!" Tommy held her arms.

"Whoa!" Rachel screamed. "I guess I've been working overtime."

"What is this?" Tommy asked as he looked at the lore Rachel was studying.

"I contacted Bruce Wayne for help and went to library for legends about Amazons." Rachel explained. "That Amazon that you fought the other night was Artemis of Bana-Mighdall. The Amazons of Bana-Mighdall are a splinter group that broke from the Amazons of Themyscira over three thousand years ago. They're being referred to as "the lost tribe of Amazons", that had settled in deserts of Egypt in a city called Bana-Mighdall. Over millennia's, they stood apart of society and became increasingly violent and bitter group of mercenaries, forging weapons, trading them with the outside world. It took several battles, in which Diana, the Wonder Woman, was involved, before they rejoined the ranks of Amazons of Themyscira. Once they left the Paradise Island, they lost their longevity, so they kept abducting straggling men and…" She paused, tensing at the thought as Tommy clenched his fists. "Yeah, my thoughts exactly." She nodded. "However, the Amazons reunited against a witch named Circe and since then, both tribes had a… reluctant alliance to say the least since then. However, one of the Amazons of Bana-Mighdall disappeared. She arrogantly tried to steal the most powerful weapon given to Bana by the Egyptian gods, the bow of Ra."

"The thing she was looking for the other night." Tommy nodded.

"The weapon rejected her, however, the gods deemed her not worthy of wielding it." Rachel explained. "I'm guessing she's been trying to find the bow ever since."

"Great." Tommy groaned.


Elsewhere

"We've been trying but the degeneration process can't be slowed down, nor reversed." The scientist said as the council member sneered.

"Did you finish the virus?" He asked as the scientist nodded.

"Yes. But the tests on a Kryptonian subject will take months…"

"Miss Tate and Queen Moira want results!" The council member snapped as he injected the syringe into the clone's tube and then into himself. Then, he tried to throw a punch in the air as the clone punched his way out from the tube.


Rachel's penthouse

Tommy was untying the bandages around himself before he saw the news report of a man with pale skin flying around and smashing things before he rushed to the mannequin with his costume, while Rachel was coming out from the shower as she was tying the bathrobe before she saw Tommy on the ledge of the balcony, about to jump down.

"Oh, no, no, no, no, no, you barely survived the last …"

"Yell at me later, Rachel! I have to save the city!"

Rachel groaned. "Why on Earth did I have to fall for this guy, of all people…"


Star City

The Kryptonian clone was tearing things apart on the street as Merlyn fired an explosive arrow but it didn't faze the clone even a bit.

"I should have asked Batman for some Kryptonite." The clone grabbed Merlyn and threw him as Merlyn hit the tree, groaning. The clone then flied towards the vigilante as Merlyn dodged, while the tree behind him shattered to bits before a giant axe was jammed to his chest.

"Leave the little one alone, monster." Artemis snapped.

"What are you doing here?" Merlyn groaned as she got him on his feet.

"You're in over your head, what do you think?" Artemis asked sarcastically as the clone threw the axe back towards her and she caught it but a piece of the blade scratched her arm and she hissed as the metal hit her flesh.

"Tommy, I've got a signal coming twenty feet away from you." Rachel said over the comms. "Someone's controlling that thing remotely."

"Keep that thing busy!" Merlyn yelled. "I'm taking down the puppet master!"

"No… problem!" Artemis yelled as she punched the clone hard in the chest as he flew across the street, smashing the concrete as he landed.


Merlyn went to a large building, jumping through the window as the council member turned around, facing the vigilante as Merlyn recognized him.

"Roman Sionis. Black Mask."

"Merlyn. The new vigilante in town. I'm honored." Black Mask smirked. "But I'm afraid our meeting must end as quickly as it started." He threw a punch as…


…the clone swung his fist but Artemis blocked and countered, while the clone stood his ground before she threw another punch, sending the clone flying...


…towards the building, where was Black Mask and Merlyn. "What the hell?" Black Mask demanded.

"You have this massive crush on weapons… and you unleash a monster on the street!" Merlyn snapped as Artemis jumped in. "Why Star City?"

"Training field…" Black Mask said simply. "I'm just testing my new pet… using you two as training dummies!" He telepathically controlled the clone as he punched Artemis, who flew towards Merlyn, knocking him down on the ground.

"I have an idea…" Merlyn said as he noticed Black Mask panting out. "You see how those two are tired? I'm guessing the more he exerts the control over him…"

"The more he burns out like a cinder?" Artemis deduced. "Got it."

"Meat, or potatoes?" Merlyn asked.

"What does food have to do with it?" Artemis scowled as Merlyn rolled his eyes.

"Never mind, puppet's yours, I'm taking the puppet master!" He engaged Black Mask as Artemis kicked the clone in the face. "You haven't thought this through, Sionis!"

"How so?" Black Mask drawled.

"Trying to control power you don't understand!" Merlyn said as he dodged Sionis's attack and knocked him on the ground.

Black Mask got up on his feet as he was about to engage Merlyn again as Merlyn kept dodging, while Black Mask was throwing punches furiously. "Who are you to lecture me, you little…"

Suddenly, Black Mask screamed out as he fell down on the floor, mumbling an unknown language as the clone stood passively where he was.

"I'm guessing you exerted yourself." Merlyn smirked.

"The… cure…" Sionis said.

"What cure?" Merlyn scowled before Sionis was again talking in an unknown language.

"Kryptonian." Artemis said.

"You understand that?" Merlyn scowled.

Artemis nodded. "Can't let the virus take me over. The circle promised I can control it."

"The Ninth Circle…" Merlyn muttered.

"What?" Artemis scowled.

"Nothing." Merlyn shook his head.

The clone kept staring in front of himself as Merlyn and Artemis turned to him. "What about that thing?"

"We should put it out of it's misery." Artemis said.

"It's just a puppet. It did nothing wrong." Merlyn argued.

"It's a weapon." Artemis disagreed.

Merlyn was about to open his mouth but stopped himself as he saw the look in her eyes. "Fine."

Artemis approached the clone and picked up her axe before beheading the clone. "We better make sure to destroy the body. We can't let anyone else us it as a weapon." She grabbed the body and the head of the clone before walking away.

"Where are you going?" Merlyn asked.

"I will keep looking for my bow." Artemis said.

"What made you think it was in Star City in the first place?" Merlyn asked as Artemis threw towards him a badge with nine circles.

"One of the men, who smuggled it into the town had this. He said that they were going to use it in their arsenal. But it's not here anymore, I would sense it." Artemis said.

"So, you're leaving? Just like that?" Merlyn scowled.

"There's nothing keeping me here anymore." Artemis replied as she jumped high with the corpse.

"Fair enough." Merlyn shrugged before turning to Black Mask, who kept mumbling Kryptonian, apparently catatonic. "See you in a nuthouse, psycho."


Elsewhere

"Sionis overestimated his own powers." The council member sneered as Talia glared.

"No matter, he was just another pawn, just like Richard Dragon and John King."

"We still have more pressing matters to attend to." Moira pointed out. "The vigilantes and Slade Wilson."

"I understand you don't want the vigilantes dead but Mr. Wilson has been onto us." Talia said. "Him, Thomas Merlyn and the Birds of Prey have been nuisances lately."

"It will be taken care of." Moira promised. "We need to give Mr. Wolfman time to prepare."


Later, Rachel's penthouse

As Tommy entered the room and turned on the lights, they revealed Rachel on bed, with nothing but a blanket to cover her as she was slowly pulling it down to reveal her breasts. "I hope you haven't run out of stamina…" She teased, while Tommy smirked, eying her, taking off his vest and lunging at his naked girlfriend on bed as she giggled.


Few weeks later

It was a routine night for Spartan and Team Arrow as Speedy was hanging two thugs upside down in the alley. "Yeah. It's good to have a good normal week for once…" Suddenly, the thug's chests were filled with bullets as Speedy turned around and groaned. "Oh, come on, not you again!" She notched an arrow. "Don't move, you bastard!"

"I just did you a favor!" Vigilante snarled. "Two less criminals on the street!"

"Cold-blooded murder!" Speedy retorted. "You're the criminal!"

"I'm what you and your friends are!" Vigilante pointed at her. "The only difference between you and me is that I use a more efficient weapon!" He fired as Speedy took cover behind a container and saw Vigilante run away as she glared.

"Not this time, you son of a bitch!" Speedy fired a grapnel arrow and was chasing Vigilante on the roof as she fired another arrow as Vigilante caught it but it exploded in his face as Vigilante fell down.

Speedy neared Vigilante as his mask was burning and he was taking it off, while she notched another arrow. "You're not getting away this time, you…" She stopped herself as she saw Vigilante's face, widening her eyes in recognition. "Oh, my God… it's you."

Vigilante glared as he pulled out a flashbang grenade and the explosion stunned Speedy and knocked her on the ground.


Later, the Lair

"Thea, what happened?" Roy asked as he saw Thea staring at the sketch she just drew.

"Vigilante." Thea sighed. "I had him but…"

"Don't worry. Next time." Roy said before noticing the sketch she was holding. "You saw his face?"

"Yeah." Thea said as Dinah, Rene, Rory, Curtis and Diggle entered.

Dinah neared Thea and scowled as she saw the sketch. "Who is that?"

"Vigilante." Thea explained as Diggle picked the sketch and paled.

"You know him?" Curtis asked.

"We need to call Laurel." Diggle said.


SCPD

The CSI were analyzing the footage of Speedy chasing Vigilante as they did a facial recognition of Vigilante, finding a match.


District Attorney's office, Bludhaven

A man around 30 years old, with short hair was going over some folders at his desk as a woman with dark complexion and a suit entered.

"Adrian Chase?"

"Can I help you?" Adrian asked as he raised his head, while the woman showed her ID.

"Samandra Watson. Federal Bureau of Investigation. I need you to come with me."

"Why?" Adrian scowled.

"You have become a person of interest, regarding connection to a vigilante, who has been active in the past few months in Star City." Watson said.


Star City Airport

"Welcome to Star City. Personal or family business?" The man at the customs asked.

"Family." Slade said. "I'm looking for my son."


The Vigilante here is not Vincent Sobel, Dinah Drake's partner, like in the show, which BTW felt fucking stupid and no, Adrian Chase is not Vigilante either but will have a connection to him.

So, what do you guys think about it?

Please review and let me know if you are enjoying this so far.